Anton Babchuk had a short-handed goal and Alex Tanguay also scored for the Flames. Kiprusoff got his fourth shutout of the season. The victory moved Calgary past four teams into a tie with Nashville for fifth place in the Western Conference, as 10 points separate 3rd place and 12th.

The temperature was about 16 degrees at the start of the game, with the wind making it feel like less than 2 degrees. Fans were putting hot packs in their boots by the start of the second period.

“I expected some people to go home,” Calgary’s Jarome Iginla said. “I can imagine how cold they were. They didn’t get to warm up the way we do, but they were there to the end, having a great time.”

The weather was more hockeylike than for the Winter Classic in Pittsburgh on Jan. 1, when rain and temperatures in the 50s forced the N.H.L. to delay the start to evening from afternoon.

RED WINGS 2, WILD 1 Todd Bertuzzi’s 1,000th career game came to a stirring conclusion when he slowed in front of the net and veered right before flipping a backhander over goalie Niklas Backstrom into the far upper corner to clinch a shootout win for visiting Detroit over Minnesota, Bertuzzi’s nemesis.

“There’s no better place to get the 2 points and also score,” said Bertuzzi, who became a villain in Minnesota during the 2003 playoffs, when he played for Vancouver. “It’s a great atmosphere.”

Bertuzzi, 36, became the 263rd player in N.H.L. history, 33 of them still active, to reach the 1,000-game milestone. He first riled up Wild fans eight years ago by telling people in line for advance playoff tickets to see Game 6 of their second-round series not to bother because the Canucks were going to end it before then.

The Wild came back from a 3-1 deficit, and Bertuzzi never heard the end of it. He was booed during the All-Star Game in St. Paul in 2004, and even as he switched teams over the years his bad-boy reputation always preceded him.

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The Red Wings have won five straight. With two goals apiece in three of his previous four games, Bertuzzi is becoming a bigger part of a push to catch the Canucks in the Western Conference.

BLACKHAWKS 3, PENGUINS 2 Patrick Kane scored the only goal in the shootout to lead host Chicago past Pittsburgh.

Patrick Sharp and Bryan Bickell scored in regulation for the Blackhawks in their third straight game without Coach Joel Quenneville, who is recovering from gastrointestinal bleeding caused by an ulcer. The assistant Mike Haviland replaced him.

Corey Crawford had 24 saves for Chicago. Matt Cooke had a short-handed score for Pittsburgh, and Brett Sterling fired in a rebound from the edge of the crease with 3 minutes 18 seconds left in the third period to tie it at 2-2. Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 29 saves for the Penguins, including a point-blank glove save on a shot by Michael Frolik.

CAPITALS 2, SABRES 1 Marcus Johansson deflected in Mathieu Perreault’s shot midway through the third period to lift Washington to a win at Buffalo.

A version of this article appears in print on February 21, 2011, on Page D7 of the New York edition with the headline: Flames Prevail in an Outdoor Shutout Over the Canadiens. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe